Chap. 483.—An ACT to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads
and bridges in Greenesville county.

Approved March 1, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on and
after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, it shall
be lawful for the county of Greenesville to keep in repair the high-
ways, roads and bridges, as follows:

2. The board of supervisors of said county shall take charge of and
have worked and kept in repair all public roads and bridges hereto-
fore and hereafter established, and for this purpose are authorized
and empowered to levy a road tax, not exceeding fifty cents on every
one hundred dollars’ worth of all taxable values in said county that are
subject to taxation for county and schocl purposes, to be collected in
the same manner as state and county taxes, which shall be applied
as hereinafter mentioned under this act, and which shall be kept
separate and apart from other moneys collected by the treasurer, and
shal] be denominated a road fund; and said board shal! adopt such
regulations as may be necessary to secure the proper working of the
roads and repairing of the bridges in said county.

3. The board of supervisors.of said county shall, as soon after the
irst day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as may be prac-
‘icable, appoint one commissioner of roads for each magisterial dis-
ict, who shall be a resident of the district for which he is appointed,
vho shall qualify by taking the usual oath of office, and shall
ontinue as such until their successors are duly appointed, unless re-
moved by the board of supervisors, in which case the said board of
supervisors shall at once proceed to fill the place of the commissioner
30 removed. The term of said commissioners shall be for two years,
commencing on the first day of June after their appointment, and
the said commissioners shall be appointed at the meeting of said
ooard in May, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and the said
:ommissioners shall, as soon after their appointment as practicable,
proceed to go over and examine the roads and bridges in their re-
spective districts, and lay them off into sections not exceeding ten
miles, numbering the same, and shall estimate the cost of repairing
the roads and bridges in each section and report to the board of
jupervisors, stating what sections are most in need of repair.

4. The board of supervisors after examining the reports of the
several commissioners shall determine what sections shall be first
repaired and notify said commissioners of same, who shall, after ten
days’ notice, posted at the several post-offices in their respective dis-
tricts and along the sections proposed to be worked, also at the door
of the court-house of Greenesville county, or in some newspaper in
the county if so directed by the board of supervisors, proceed to let
to the lowest suitable bidder in sections, as may be designated by
the board of supervisors, the working and keeping in repair of such
sections so designated for the period of one year ending on the thir-
tieth day of June of each year. They shall require the bids to be
in writing and signed by the contractor, and shall deliver the same,
under seal, to the board of supervisors for their examination and ap-
proval or rejection at their first meeting thereafter. Each contractor
shall be required to give bond and good security in the penalty af
least double the amount of his bid for the faithful performance ot
his contract, and a recovery may be had for any breach of any con-
tract in the name of the county for the benefit of the road fund in
the county court of said county by motion after ten days’ notice
to the contractor and his securities. The attorney for the com
monwealth shall institute and prosecute such motion. The saic
contract and bonds shall be filed with the clerk of said county.

d. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of roads to give per
sonal supervision to all the roads and bridges within their respectiv
districts, to see that the contractor is faithfully performing his con
tract, and for any failure in carrying out his contract the commis
sioner of the district shall notify the contractor in writing, and i
he does not within ten days from the notice put the section in sucl
repair as his contract calls for, then the commissioner shall at onc
institute, through the commonwealth’s attorney, proceedings in the
county court of said county for any breach of said contract.

6. The commissioners of roads shall receive for their services a
compensation not exceeding twenty-five dollars per year, to be paid
by the county out of the road fund.

7. All levies made under this act shall be collected and accounted
for by the treasurer of the county as other levies, and shall be paid
out on the order of the board of supervisors.

8. No member of the board of supervisors or commissioners shall
be, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract under this act,
and any participation therein by either shall render the contract
null and void.

9. When the opening of a new road or building of a new bridge
shall be ordered by the court, the work of building or opening the
same shall be let to contract as now provided by law.

10. The board of supervisors shall keep a book known as a road
book, in which shall be kept an acconnt of the road tax levied and
the amount collected therefor, and all moneys expended.

11. Such provisions of the general road laws of the state as do
not conflict with this act shall continue in force in Greenesville
county.

12. This act shall be in force from its passage.